Job Summary

We are seeking a highly capable and strategically minded Governance Strategy Lead to support the next phase of the Cluster Governance Refinement Programme at Standard Chartered Bank. The Governance Strategy Lead is a senior leader within the Governance Enablement Office (GEO), responsible for shaping and embedding the GEO vision across the Group. GEO’s mission is to give the organisation a VOICE – delivering Visibility, Optimisation, Integration, Culture, and Enablement in governance. The role partners with senior stakeholders to design and operationalise lean, technology-enabled governance frameworks, drive digital and cultural transformation, and ensure that governance is a source of competitive advantage. The Governance Strategy Lead will champion the adoption of AI and automation, embed disciplined meeting practices, and act as a cultural catalyst for outcome-focused, future-ready governance. This is a rare opportunity to shape the bank’s approach to governance at scale, ensuring that our forums are lean, decision-oriented, and genuinely enable execution.

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead the design and operationalisation of the Governance Enablement Office (GEO), ensuring alignment with the Group’s strategic goals and the VOICE framework.
•    Define the GEO mandate, structure, and operating model, including tooling, reporting lines, and engagement models with businesses, functions, countries, and clusters.
•    Develop and implement a group-wide governance framework that aligns recurring meetings with purpose, value, and execution capability, supported by standardised templates and global guidelines.
•    Partner with senior stakeholders to develop, enhance, and implement target operating models for execution of oversight, risk management, and decision-making processes for global governance themes (e.g., Third Party Risk Management, Conduct, Client Experience Management, Data Risk Governance).
•    Ensure governance processes are outcome-focused, efficient, and consistent across all verticals (Risk, CFCC, Business, Ops, etc.).
•    Identify, design, and deliver AI-driven capabilities such as Governance Intelligence Hub, Zero-Based Governance Bot, and Pack Streamlining Assistant to materially reduce governance costs and improve decision velocity.
•    Serve as subject matter expert for governance optimisation, providing thought leadership, best practice guidance, and innovation leadership.
•    Identifying governance gaps that could lead to regulatory breaches, strategic misalignment, or operational inefficiency.
•    Proactively flagging risks from meeting proliferation, duplication, or decision-making delays.
•    Working with Risk, CFCC, and Operational Risk teams to embed governance risk controls into the GEO operating model.
•    Maintaining auditable records of decisions and ensuring they are traceable to accountable individuals.

•    Build strong partnerships with senior leaders across the Group to ensure buy-in and adoption of the GEO model and VOICE framework.
•    Facilitate workshops and working groups to co-create governance and AI-enabled solutions with stakeholders.

Qualifications

•    Relevant experience in governance, regulatory change, risk management, strategy, or transformation roles in financial services.
•    Proven ability to design and implement enterprise-wide frameworks, processes, and technology-enabled solutions.
•    Exposure to risk and control environments, enterprise policy frameworks and strong understanding of regulatory governance requirements (e.g., SMR, board governance, risk committee structures) is highly desirable.
•    Experience partnering with senior stakeholders on operating models for cross-cutting governance themes.
•    Demonstrated experience in innovation, technology adoption - AI use case implementation preferred.
•    Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
•    Highly organised with the ability to management multiple priorities in a complex environment.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.